Beer-faucet



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A. OREILLY.

BEER FAUGBT. No. 285,656. Patented fiept. 25, 1883.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUSTIN OREILLY, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

BEER-FAUCET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,656, datedSeptember 25, 1883.

Application filed May 8, 1883.

zen ofthe United States, residing at Springfield,

in the county. of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented newand useful Improvements in Beer-Faucets, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in beer-faucets having severalbranches, to which may be connected several delivery-pipes lead ing todifferent drawing-counters, the object being to improve the constructionand arrangement of the plugs and branches of said. faucets, and tofacilitate the manipulation of the plugs thereof.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure I is an endView of a beer-cask supplied with a cock and pipe-connectionsconstructed and combined according to my invention. Fig. II is a planView of my improved beer-cock removed from the cask.

In the drawings, A. is the cask. c is the beer-cock. d d are thefaucets. e e are the pipe-couplings, and n a are the pipes leading fromthe faucets.

In the drawings are shown but two faucets on the cock; but it is obviousthat several more may be added.

The beer-cock-meaning by this term the entire article-is indicated bythe letter 0. This consists of the usual straight shank, hollow,

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and adapted to be driven into the cask A, having upon its head, onopposite sides thereof, two faucets, d, integral therewith, and of theusual construction. The said faucets, however, occupy reversed positionsso far as the heads of their plugs are concernedthat is to say, the headof one plug is above the head of the cock and one is below it. Thisarrangement is made for the purpose of leaving ample room around thehead of each plug to grasp and turn it free from any inconvenience thatwould exist if both of the plug-heads stood side by side on one side ofthe cock.

Each of the faucets d is provided with a screwed nozzle, m, onto whichis screwed a roupling, e, to which-is connected the pipe at.

Fig. 1, illustrates the arrangement of my improved beer-cock with twofaucets and two lines of pipe connected and combined with a cask, as theparts appear when being used to supply two beer-drawing counters.

What I claim as my invention is- A beer-cock having two faucets, d d,tl1ere-

